Posted on 10/20/2024 7:13:02 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
From Our Special Correspondent.
NASHVILLE, Tenn., Thursday night, Oct. 13, 1864.
THE FORREST RAID.
The cavalry portion of the pursuers of FORREST have just arrived, and, as I speak from experience, having witnessed the whole affair, from beginning to end, candor compels me to say that it was the most inglorious pursuit I have ever had to chronicle.
In my last letter, I gave you the complete history of FORREST's doings from the time he first crossed the river, up to when he tricked us so cleverly upon the 2d of October.
If you recollect, after leading ROUSSEAU astray, and compelling him to hurry his troops down to Tullahoma, he turned his whole force around, and made his appearance, upon the 2d inst., in the immediate vicinity of Columbia, at the same time sending his artillery and all other incumbrances to the rear, or at least, safely disposing of it, in some way.
At this time, FORREST had about four thousand men, the balance having been sent across the river with prisoners, with sick and wounded, &c.
Early on the morning of the 2d it became known at headquarters that the raiders had arrived at Colombia. The purpose of this was to make complete the destruction already commenced upon the Decatur road. He did not attack the garrison at Columbia, but made various movements around the fort and block-houses, his object being to destroy three large bridges at this point. Early on the same morning our forces under Gen. ROUSSEAU started, the command being eight thousand strong. The infantry comprised some of the best troops in the service, including the Seventy-eighth Pennsylvania, Twenty-first Michigan, Eighty-third Illinois, Fifty-first Indiana, and other well-known regiments, under Gen. STEEDMAN. The cavalry was composed of the Seventh Pennsylvania, Ninth Ohio, First Tennessee, Sixth Indiana,
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